Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures at University of Bucharest

New philological programmes were established in the following years: Italian (1878), Slavic languages (1891), German (1905), Spanish (1930), Russian (1934), and English (1936). The second half of the century, up until present times, has seen the greatest development of foreign language education at the University of Bucharest. The teaching of foreign languages has become a major preoccupation in the University, an essential condition for the self-affirmation of young people. An inventory of all the languages that have been taught, to different degrees and at different periods, puts their total number at an impressive 42. 33 of these are taught nowadays, among which Greek, Turkish, Catalan, Romany, Slovene, Macedonian, Armenian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Korean, Japanese and Swedish are not present in the curricula of other faculties. The 17 centres of the faculty are host to impressive research activity, each of them publishing its own journal and collaborating with national and international organizations. The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures has developed multiple useful applications in the field of foreign language studies, carrying out dynamic teaching activities for its students: the French essay writing competition, the Online School Portal (the French language department, the Slovak language department etc.)

• The European pRo - Contemporary poetry translation project
• The Nippon Foundation Fund for Japanese Language Education programme
• The Culture 2007-2013 – Meeting Cultures between the Lines project